hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:> By author: "Michael O'Reilly" <michael@metal.iinet.net.au>> >> > There's a simple reason for all this. The Sysvinit does a sync() in> > it's main loop. So every time it gets a SIGCHLD from a process w/o a> > parent dying, it does a sync(), which flushes all the dirty buffers> > (including atime mods), and voilo! Tons of disk writing.> > > > WHY???> > -hpa